Chapter 726: Don't Panic! Wait for Me to Reach Platinum
Jiangnan stuffed the spirit bead into his pocket and grinned. This girl was like a chubby little pixiu? How much pocket money had he earned from her already? She still had plenty of potential.
Hedtie was creeped out by Jiangnan's stare and quickly ran off to feed the team members ginseng. The team members were all touched.
"Holy Maiden, you've spent too much on us again!"
Hedtie shook her head repeatedly: "I can't help with much, this is the only thing I can do. You all need to get better soon!"
Watching this scene, Adams gritted his steel teeth and went off to sulk alone.
Jiangnan naturally wasn't having a sudden bout of kindness to save competitors. But now that everyone had fallen into the same pit and were trapped on the third level, having Fish Country around could cause some trouble for Mi Country. Jiangnan was quite enthusiastic about making things difficult for his opponents. At worst, if they ran into a spirit-binding beast, Fish Country personnel could help draw some fire!
Jiangnan was considering how to get out when roars came from the sky again!
"Suka blyat! How is it a pit!"
"Ahhh, Fito you son of a bitch!"
"This isn't harasho at all!"
Looking up, it was Yuri, Yuke and the others falling out of the space gate! They looked like wild men, plummeting like human-shaped cannonballs while still cursing.
Jiangnan's heart raced. Business was coming again?
"Boom boom boom!"
Without any deceleration, the over 200 E Guo team members slammed into the ground like lead balls, creating human-shaped craters.
Jiangnan hurried over with his little backpack: "Brothers, want to buy medicine? I've got..."
Before Jiangnan could finish, Yuri and Yuke crawled out of the human-shaped craters cursing, brushing off the dirt.
"That hurts, feels like I got hit by a truck～"
"Getting hit by a truck hurt less than this fall. I've tried!"
"Tch! Fish Country and Hua Xia got here first? How did we take the damage?"
Jiangnan: ???
You... none of you are hurt?
And the important thing is who got here first?!
Not only Jiangnan was stunned, but Ling Feng and Xiao Zhen were all dumbfounded!
No one died? Full squad of steel cannons? What kind of freakish physiques do you people have?!
Before everyone could recover from the shock, many of Yuri's team spat out old blood and grimaced!
Jiangnan and the others sighed in relief. So they were injured too?
"Brothers! My medicine..."
Yuri: "We're not buying! Minor injuries, nothing to mention. Only by enduring pain can we progress! Besides, we have band-aids!"
Jiangnan: (๐･᷄口･᷅) Ahˀ̣ˀ̣
"But you're all spitting blood! Band-aids won't help internal injuries. Just buy some!"
Yuke waved: "Spitting blood is just giving this pit some face! Otherwise it'd look incompetent!"
"Willpower can overcome everything! Ura!"
Jiangnan covered his face and squatted on the ground. I'll give you guys a perfect score for that act, okay?
Can't you give me a chance to sell you something?
I haven't earned a single cent from you yet!
I feel terrible!
But then, the sound of helicopter engines came!
A helicopter descended slowly above the cave!
Caige sat casually inside, looking at Jiangnan and the others through binoculars with a playful smile on his lips!
"Yo～ Not bad, huh? No one died? You made me lose a lot of money. How is it? Comfy down there?"
Yuri and Adams immediately started cursing!
Jiangnan squinted. This was obviously the leader of the Mi Country personnel stationed on the third level.
Jiangnan strode forward and grabbed a stalactite pillar three meters in diameter!
Everyone was stunned. What was Nan Shen going to do?
Jiangnan exerted force from his waist, breaking off the stone pillar. Then he hugged it, took three running steps, muscles bulging like coiling dragons, heart pounding like a war drum!
Blood Incineration Monarch Engine was pushed to 80%, white smoke billowing from his body!
With waist and legs working together, his left foot stomped down, and the enormous stalactite pillar was hurled toward the helicopter!
"Comfy! So come down and play with me too!"
"Boom!"
The stone pillar broke the sound barrier, shooting up over a thousand meters at terrifying speed!
Caige: !!!
"Damn! The fuck! Pull up! Evade!"
He frantically slapped the helicopter. The pilot's heart nearly stopped as he yanked the control stick!
The stone pillar flew past the rotor blades, the turbulence making the helicopter unstable.
Wang Ba was horrified: "Nan Shen is only Gold, right? What kind of physique is that?"
Ling Feng's eyes bulged: "That strength, damn. This guy is supposed to be a controller?"
The Pioneer Academy students were reminded of the fear of iron fists.
"That river-crossing dragon is back!"
"For Nan Shen, the spirit-binding field isn't limiting him—it's removing his seal!"
"In a spirit-bound state, he knocked out a Xiahushan fighter. What do you think?"
Gong Lin gasped: "What? Even Brother Hu?"
Tao Xinyi covered her face: "That was half a year ago..."
Jiangnan looked regretful: "Tch, so close! This is terrible shooting!"
Caige was furious, nearly capsizing in a ditch!
[Caige's resentment value +1000!]
Who could imagine Jiangnan was fierce enough to throw a stone pillar from the cave bottom up here?
"Fine! You can still struggle, huh? Let's see if you can still struggle later!"
He pulled out a detonator from his pocket!
Jiangnan smiled brightly: "Go ask your mom!"
Caige: (ꐦಠ益ಠ)
[Caige's resentment value +1000!]
He angrily pressed the detonator. A violent explosion occurred at the cave entrance—explosives obviously planted earlier. Tens of thousands of cubic meters of rock and soil collapsed. At the same time, he shouted into the radio: "Seal the opening for me!"
Suddenly, the rock wall around the cave entrance began to move! The remaining opening of the cave was rapidly closing, clearly someone manipulating the third layer's core to change the terrain!
Caige was trying to seal everyone inside the cave!
"Let's see if you can still smile! Stay here and be feed!"
Jiangnan looked up with a bright grin, showing no concern at all, and said leisurely: "I will. And I'll do it right in front of you! Just wait!"
Caige sneered. Young people are always blindly confident. You'll be crying soon!
The last sliver of light at the top of the cave disappeared. The entrance was completely sealed, plunging everything into darkness.
Jiangnan: "I suddenly understand the meaning of the idiom 'turtle in a jar'!"
He turned his gaze to Wang Ba with a look of sudden realization.
Wang Ba: ???
Everyone looked at Wang Ba, making sounds of astonishment.
Wang Ba: (̿▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄
"Can you all stop staring at me? What does this have to do with me at all?"
[Wang Ba's resentment value +1000!]
Jiangnan chuckled: "Someone turn on a light. It's too dark!"
Adams and Yuri were stunned, looking at Jiangnan like he was an idiot!
Turn on a light? You think this is your bedroom?!
But without another word, Wu Liang and Qi Yu pulled out bottles of Brawn 2.0 from their backpacks and downed them. With two tearing sounds, they transformed into Muscle Devils. Their bald heads emitted blinding light, illuminating the entire underground cave like daytime!
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-`(ꐦ･᷅ڡ･᷄ꐦ)´-
Ling Feng and Wang Ba stared wide-eyed at the two Muscle Devils in terror!
What the hell? That convenient?!
But then, Xia Yao's ears twitched: "Something's coming! Can't tell which direction. There's echoes. Could it be a spirit..."
Before she finished, a pitch-black Cola Giant Lizard burst out from the northern cave entrance, moving at terrifying speed. The Fish Country explorer with his back to the entrance couldn't react! The giant lizard bit down, swallowing everything above the waist in one gulp, blood splattering!
Everyone went on alert. But now, sounds came from all the cave entrances around the cave. A thirty-meter-long, black-armored, ferocious giant lizard charged from the side!
Its whip-like tail lashed toward Wu Liang!
Wu Liang, pumped up from the Brawn 2.0, feared nothing!
He used his signature Golden Bell Shield, reaching for the lizard's tail!
Ling Feng: !!!
"Hey! Don't—!"
But it was too late. The whip-like tail slammed heavily into Wu Liang!
The immense force prevented Wu Liang from grabbing it! His body was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing into the wall! He spat out old blood, his waist and abdomen bruised and purple!
"Hiss—so this is a spirit-binding beast? It's incredibly powerful!"
Jiangnan was shocked! Wu Liang's physique was already good, and he was in a Brawn 2.0 state! Yet he was sent spitting blood by a Platinum-level spirit-binding beast's tail swipe? What kind of freakish beast body strength is this?!
Now, countless spirit-binding beasts crawled out of the caves, making everyone's scalps tingle!
Jiangnan roared: "Melee and shield fighters on the outside! Protect the squishy damage dealers! Don't leave the formation!"
"Brother Feng, you three hold the front line! Don't panic, everyone! Wait for me to reach Platinum!"
Everyone was dumbfounded!
What?
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